Three U.S. physician experts, Paul Alexander, Howard Tenenbaum and Parvez Dara, said in a joint article Monday (May 3) that the risk of coronavirus infection in children is so low and the mortality rate so near zero that there is absolutely no need for them to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus vaccine. Instead, the vaccine now urgently approved for use has no long-term safety data and is potentially risky.
An excerpt from the article is translated below.
What is the rationale for wanting children to be vaccinated against neo-coronavirus (CCA virus)? Where are the data? Is there a scientific basis? We haven’t seen anything and we think it’s dangerous.
Why is there a push to vaccinate 6-month-old babies or children as young as 10 years old? This vaccine inputs genetic code into your cells instructing them to produce part of the virus (“S” or stinger protein), but there is no safety data on this vaccine and the clinical trials have not been long enough to effectively assess its safety.
If our children can be allowed to contract the virus naturally and harmlessly through exposure in their daily lives, why impose undue risk on them?
This is illogical, irrational, and unsound, and we believe that the experts who take this absurd position should know better.
Risks
Dr. Fauci’s recommendation to vaccinate children from 6 months to 11 years of age against COVID-19 is unfounded. The risk of COVID-19 infection in children is very low, especially since it causes less serious illness, and children do not transmit the disease. The most recent data from the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that “children account for 0.00%-0.19% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 10 U.S. states report zero deaths in children. Among states with reported child deaths, the child mortality rate was only 0.00%-0.03%.”
In another example, the spread of SAR-CoV-2 virus was studied in a high-quality robust study in the French Alps with a group of COVID-19 cases. They followed an infected child to three different schools and interacted with other children, teachers and various adults. They reported that despite close contact, no secondary transmission occurred. These data have been available to the CDC and other health professionals for more than a year.
The Swedish researchers published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2021 on the effects of COVID-19 on children aged 1 to 16 years and their teachers in Sweden. Nearly 2 million children in Sweden reportedly attend school without the requirement to wear a mask, and the number of students who died from COVID-19 was zero, with a few cases of transmission and very low hospitalization rates.
A study of 10 million people published in the journal Nature found no instances of transmission from positive asymptomatic patients among all 1,174 close contacts. The World Health Organization (WHO) also claims that asymptomatic spread/transmission is rare. This asymptomatic transmission is a key rationale for forcing vaccination of children. However, this proposed mandatory policy is contrary to the science.
Not only is there no evidence to support the claim that children are spreading the virus and therefore vaccination is necessary, but there is direct evidence that they are not spreading the virus/disease at all. This has been proven in schools and other papers.
Infected children are usually asymptomatic. It is well known that asymptomatic patients are not the cause of plague pandemics. In this regard, it is clear that children are not the primary driver of SARS-CoV-2 infection, unlike seasonal influenza.
In the rare instances when a child is infected with SARS-CoV-2, it is extremely rare for that child to become seriously ill or die. To reiterate, teachers are not at risk of being infected by children (and vice versa).
The pediatric literature indicates that the risk of children being infected is extremely low (near zero), and this has been scientifically proven.
Pros and Cons
Without a careful review of the pros and cons, children cannot be subject to the same policies as adults. Of course, zero risk is not possible.
For almost all children and adolescents under the age of 20, the risk of being infected with COVID-19 is very small. For children, the risk of death is essentially close to zero. So on balance, it is not worthwhile to administer a largely untested vaccine.
This is a risk management issue, and parents must seriously consider that COVID-19 is far less harmful to children than influenza. Parents must be brave enough to do a pros and cons assessment and ask themselves, “If my child is at virtually no risk, the risk of serious sequelae or death is virtually zero, so the vaccine offers little benefit. But right now, the potential harm the vaccine could cause is unknown, so why should I have my child get this vaccine?”
A call for caution
The mortality rate for children under the age of 12 is close to zero. By requiring children to wear masks and closing schools to keep them out, these policies have led to a spike in suicide rates among children, as well as adults. Now we’re trying to vaccinate children with experimental vaccines for which long-term safety data is not available. We think this is very unsafe.
Sample size can never compensate for the test of time. Remember the polio vaccine disaster of 1955? Remember the dengue vaccine and the dangerous plasma leakage syndrome in 2017? Vaccines then posed a risk to children who had not previously been infected. Remember the 2009 H1N1 vaccine and episodic sleeping sickness? Remember the 1960s measles vaccine and its effects on children? And so on.
Alarmingly, there is growing evidence that the stinger proteins themselves may be pathogenic and lethal, and since we inject intact stinger proteins or mRNA to code for them, we are concerned about this.
The way forward
Children should live normally and, if exposed to SARS-CoV-2, we can rest assured that in most cases they will be asymptomatic or only mildly symptomatic, while acquiring natural immunity. This immunity is definitely superior to that which might be triggered by a vaccine. It will also accelerate much needed herd immunity.
Allow daily interactions between children to be harmlessly and naturally exposed to the virus. This will not only improve their immunity, it will improve their defenses against virus variants and will also allow children’s immune systems to adjust on a daily basis, which is the opposite of weakening their immunity due to a full year of lockdowns and school closures.
We demand clarification from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other government agencies regarding vaccinations for children. We demand a halt to the testing of vaccines for children. This is not only based on the presumed risks associated with mass vaccination, but more specifically because children simply do not need the COVID-19 vaccine.
In addition, we request that government agencies clarify the pros and cons of childhood vaccines before issuing another “emergency use authorization” for such vaccines.
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